פירוש על רות 1:6

She had heard that Adonai had taken note of His people. The sages said that she had heard this from the merchants who visit the towns. Rabbi Hirsch Darshan of Krakow explains that one cannot contradict merchants (about prices) since they sell women’s jewelry and because they visit all the towns they know the prices of jewelry. They told Naomi that they had traveled throughout the land of Israel so the famine must have stopped…